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Speaker 1: Welcome in. We'll driving Nick Great Episode three point fifteen.

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Speaker 1: After a eventful and somewhat exhausting weekend from New York

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Speaker 1: to Memphis to Vegas, landed back here yesterday morning. That's

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Speaker 1: why we were not able to be on the air Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Little programming note, however, a couple programming notes. Actually, let

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Speaker 1: me see if I can straighten this out a bit

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Speaker 1: for you guys. There we go. That should be better.

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Speaker 1: My apologies. Tomorrow morning. A bonus show to make up

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Speaker 1: for Tuesday, talk Lakers, Warriors, Instant Reaction, anything that should

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Speaker 1: be up and live first thing in the morning, and

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Speaker 1: if you're on the West Coast, probably while you're still sleeping,

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Speaker 1: so that'll come tomorrow Tuesday, our annual way too early

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Speaker 1: NFL over Under show. Normally we would have done that

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Speaker 1: this past Tuesday, however, we weren't on the air, and

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Speaker 1: so our friends at DraftKings have released the full slate

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Speaker 1: of NFL team win totals, so we will take our

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Speaker 1: first bite at that on Tuesday. However, we got to

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Speaker 1: get right into it. I thought I knew where we'd

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Speaker 1: be starting the show, given you know, the Internet over

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Speaker 1: the weekend, But then the Internet over the last forty

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Speaker 1: eight hours, I was involved in a different piece of

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Speaker 1: the internet. So that's in what missed the cut, But

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Speaker 1: it didn't actually miss the cut. So here's what missed

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Speaker 1: the cut. Demons. Great to see you, Tyreek Hills Stokes

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Speaker 1: trade rumors again, whatever he wants the attention. I love Tyreek,

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Speaker 1: but we know what's going on. Greatest player in Syracuse

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Speaker 1: first ballot Hall of Famer, Carmelo Anthony. And then there's

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Speaker 1: this the headline from People magazine. Dude trap Vis Kelsey

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Speaker 1: and his quote sports friend have beef. So I was

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Speaker 1: playing Demonse in a poker game in Vegas when this

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Speaker 1: got sent to me, and now it's everywhere on the internet,

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Speaker 1: and I cannot believe I need to address this. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's on People, it's on I think, that's Al Jazeera,

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Speaker 1: it's on US Weekly. It's so I am so incredibly

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Speaker 1: oddly frustrated by this because I think it is so

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Speaker 1: recklessly unfair to Travis Kelcey. So let me reset exactly

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Speaker 1: what happened, not restate, not clarified, because everything that I said,

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Speaker 1: Demanse was totally one hundred percent clear the recreation of

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Speaker 1: this in the headlines. I didn't misspeak, I didn't misrepresent

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Speaker 1: what happened. So New Heights with Travis and Jason Kelsey

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Speaker 1: shouted me out after I invited myself on their show

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Speaker 1: to be their salary cap expert. Right, that's that's what happened.

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Speaker 1: And Travis said, I offten love Nick Wright, and I said,

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Speaker 1: as an aside, I was like, you know, I actually

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Speaker 1: haven't spoken a lot to Travis since he and Taylor

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Speaker 1: got together. With the timeline being I said, we don't

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Speaker 1: really talk during the seasons. We always, you know, we

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Speaker 1: have a kind of annual event of being able to

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Speaker 1: get together at the Chief's Super Bowl Parade, But two

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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. So those two times we didn't talk.

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Speaker 1: And then the one off seat where that you know,

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Speaker 1: dear friend of Travis's. They I think one was at

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Speaker 1: at left Goo's wedding. When the when Travis and Taylor

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Speaker 1: they did a live shot at Travis and Taylor, I'm like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: that's Lefto and his wife sitting with them. They're dear friends.

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Speaker 1: Trav and I have a great relationship, but we don't

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Speaker 1: offseason he was the busiest man in the world. So

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Speaker 1: that's what I said. So I said, yea, So this

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Speaker 1: being like represented so unfairly up to an including in

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Speaker 1: the Times of India that as if Travis has cut

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Speaker 1: just total horseshit.

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Speaker 2: I feel, like you said, I've been passing as well,

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Speaker 2: Like I remember when you said it, like I remember

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Speaker 1: You know, Listen, anyone, if I felt like I had

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Speaker 1: Where I feel badly is I don't expect, certainly Taylor

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Speaker 1: But I just I do feel that it is a

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Speaker 1: the website. It's incomprehensible that level of fame. And so

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe there maybe when you're that level of famous,

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Speaker 1: Swift is. So there's the not even clarification, but the

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Speaker 1: true story. And then you got a question for me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, do you think you're gonna start a rebranding now

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Speaker 2: in light of these events?

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Speaker 1: Because I was called not my name but his sports friend.

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Speaker 1: What's right with sports friend? Okay? I mean yeah, I

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Speaker 1: that was, you know, one kind of brush with the

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Speaker 1: forty eight hours because it was my second brush with

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so over the weekend you saw Memphis and Lakers

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Speaker 1: So you're okay, yeah, we can play it if you're

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Speaker 1: which somebody got from the crowd, which includes the Lebron

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Speaker 1: coolest things you know ever. And also you know who

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Speaker 1: I thought about when I saw that this video because

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Speaker 1: I don't care. I what I thought about when Lebron

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Speaker 3: I was litering.

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Speaker 2: To Somebody brought this up at work and I was like,

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Speaker 3: Ever, go ahead, what do you know?

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. This isn't a hypothetical. We saw

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Speaker 1: Maybe That's all I could think about was you. I

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Speaker 1: strong of a word. I'll go nonplussed by the number

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Speaker 1: of people who were asserting what a life changing event

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Speaker 1: the Spurs. So we'll get to Joker in a second.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't take joy in being right on this,

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Speaker 1: But of course we were going. Anyone that has spent

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Speaker 1: a season watching late stage Russell Westbrook play for teams

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Speaker 1: with championship aspirations, all of them knew, and all of

436
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: them thought it would be different for them until they

437
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Speaker 1: realize it's not. I was one of those people once.

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Speaker 1: So here's the deal. Russell Westbrook over the last nearly

439
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: full decade has been totally unable to contribute to winning basketball,

440
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 1: and four contenders have been like, we can change him,

441
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: and all four contenders were wrong. So he he leaves

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00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: the Thunder and they pair him with James Harden for

443
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Speaker 1: a Rockets team that thinks they can win the championship

444
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: just a year and a half removed from winning sixty

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Speaker 1: five games and taking the Durant Warriors to a game

446
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: seven in the conference finals, and it of course goes terribly.

447
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: They divorce after one year. He's brutal in the playoffs,

448
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: and then he goes to the one place, the one

449
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Speaker 1: place that the Russell Westbrook experience made sense was Washington

450
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,479
Speaker 1: because Washington's like, hey, man, car keys are yours? We

451
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Speaker 1: would just love to win forty games, and Russ delivers

452
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: averages another triple doubles. It's all Russ all the time,

453
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: gets him into the playoffs, and then in those playoffs

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be like, oh, what did you do? In

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00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: the playoffs? He averaged the triple double. In the playoffs,

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00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: he shot thirty three percent from the floor and they

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Speaker 1: lost in five. Then the Lakers were like, we can

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Speaker 1: change him, and the Lakers missed the playoffs the one

459
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: year he's there in full, have to get off him

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Speaker 1: and promptly make the conference finals without him. The Clippers,

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00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: we can change him. And with the Clippers they're like, oh,

462
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: he's better here. He's accepted his role, and in his

463
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: one full season with the Clippers, they make the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: and in those playoffs he plays nineteen minutes a game,

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Speaker 1: averages six points on twenty six percent from the field,

466
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Speaker 1: twenty three percent from three and they move off him,

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Speaker 1: and then the Nuggets, we can change him. It'll be

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Speaker 1: different here. And the playoffs are approaching, and you got

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00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: a little sneak preview of what to expect. And again,

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Speaker 1: I take no pleasure in this because I have such

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Speaker 1: respect for Russell's career and the way he approaches playing

472
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Speaker 1: hard at all times. What I do take a little

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00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: pleasure in is Nuggets fans who got a little chesty

474
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year. Demon's a lot of like,

475
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: do a Twitter search for these three nouns Yokich, Lebron,

476
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: Russ and see how many tweets pop up from November

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Speaker 1: and December along the lines of, oh, why couldn't Lebron

478
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: get out of Russ? What Joker is?

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00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 1: Why oh oh oh, you know, Russ got blamed for

481
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: everything in LA but put him with a guy like Joker,

482
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Speaker 1: and look, guys, this train is never late. It's never late.

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Speaker 2: Russ also has like lost a lot of his athleticism,

484
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Speaker 2: and I think that's kind of like, oh, that's obvious

485
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 2: he's getting older. But like on that layup that he smoked,

486
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Speaker 2: I was telling Daniel like a few years ago, Russell

487
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Speaker 2: was dunk in that.

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Speaker 1: Man, I just yes, that's exactly right. By the way,

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Speaker 1: that's the that's another time where the exact take you

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Speaker 1: gave was the exact take. And this is a compliment

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Speaker 1: that Brew gave yesterday, oh, which is yeah, that that was.

492
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Speaker 1: It might have been wild one of them, but either way,

493
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Speaker 1: it was that used to be a dunk and it's

494
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Speaker 1: not anymore here on this one. And so uh and

495
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: it there what it in life? What awesome is what

496
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: all what often is your greatest asset becomes your great liability.

497
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: Russ going one speed at all times, Russ, you know,

498
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Speaker 1: playing a certain way. Russ's relentlessness is what made him him,

499
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Speaker 1: and now it's what makes him a total liability to

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Speaker 1: winning basketball. Also, by the way, that yeah, to winning basketball.

501
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Speaker 1: And it's a disase it The Nuggets aren't deep enough

502
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: to be able to just put them on ice. But man,

503
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Speaker 1: oh man, like, I I don't know, I don't know

504
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Speaker 1: how you can put him in critical playoff games. And

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Speaker 1: here's the other piece of it. I thought of that sequence, Demanse,

506
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Speaker 1: the missed layup was the least of the problems. Missed

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Speaker 1: layups happened. I thought it was a bigger problem that

508
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Speaker 1: after missing the layup in a one point double overtime

509
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: game with ten seconds left, he stood under the basket,

510
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: arms up, whining for a beat, which then allowed the

511
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Speaker 1: Timberwolves to get the advantage. And obviously the worst part

512
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Speaker 1: of the play was not only did he foul a

513
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Speaker 1: three point shooter, he fouled a three point shooter demonse

514
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Speaker 1: on a fake contest. There was like there was that

515
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Speaker 1: that wasn't one of those Oh man, I I almost

516
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Speaker 1: locked it and instead I hit him. No, I mean

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Speaker 1: it was a fake contest. And then I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you saw Rob Prez's video then when he's lead

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Speaker 1: even the court with the fan, yeah, I mean, buddy, like.

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Speaker 2: I feel the russ is. It's unfortunate. Man, Why do

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Speaker 2: you need the camera on the man's face for so

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Speaker 2: long when they make a mistake.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's like the drama. I mean, that's how I mean.

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Speaker 1: I get that.

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Speaker 2: It's like, this is a guy who messed up. But yeah,

526
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Speaker 2: he's gonna stop chirping the fans. You you screw it up,

527
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Speaker 2: and the fans are gonna.

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Speaker 1: Right like now, listen if it comes out the fan,

529
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: you know, dropped a slur then, of course whatever, but

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Speaker 1: I but my feeling was it wasn't that.

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Speaker 3: Going up there just off of Westbrick.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Westbrook, exactly exactly, And so like it's it's a

533
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Speaker 1: tough now, our resident Nuggets fan, Daniel, I still believe

534
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: in Russ. Good luck with that man again Westbrook. This decade,

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Speaker 1: this decade, guys, it's twenty twenty five, this decade in

536
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 1: the playoffs, thirty seven percent from the field, twenty seven

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Speaker 1: percent from three, three and a half turnovers a game

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Speaker 1: in thirty one minutes. Can't win that way, you just can't.

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Speaker 1: And so rough Spot, I know you have some follow

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Speaker 1: ups here, go ahead.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, even with Russ, with Russ playing the way.

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Speaker 2: He is, could you still consider counting out the Denver

543
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Speaker 2: Nuggets with Jokics being on the team.

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Speaker 1: No, So listen, that's the shame of it is Jokic

545
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: has one of the greatest games in NBA history and

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00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:51,399
Speaker 1: it gets squandered. Now again, I I saw Luca last

547
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Speaker 1: year have a seventy three, ten and seven and then

548
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,359
Speaker 1: all year long before or fifth in the standings and

549
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Speaker 1: be ineligible for MVP. So I'm not doing another MVP thing.

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Speaker 1: Shay's team might win seventy games, He's gonna win the

551
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Speaker 1: scoring title. He's were we are if we want a

552
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: retro act. Here's the deal, Nugget fans. If you make

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00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: up this petition, I'll sign it. If you would like

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Speaker 1: to retroactively give last year's MVP to Luca so Joker

555
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: can win this year, I'm all for it. But last

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Speaker 1: year the argument against Luca was Jokers team has the

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00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: best record, even if he's averaging. You know, Jokers averaging

558
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: damn near. His numbers are great, even if they're not

559
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: quite as good as Luca's, but it's contributing to winning more.

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Speaker 1: And last year Joker was the better defender than Luca.

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Speaker 1: It's gotta be Joker and Luca in with four first

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Speaker 1: place votes. You can't then use all of your Joker

563
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: arguments from last year this year and not end up

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Speaker 1: with Shay. The logical consistency of the last two years,

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Speaker 1: voting will would either go Luca last year, Joker this year,

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Speaker 1: or Joker last year Shay this year. Joker already won

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Speaker 1: last year, so it's Shay's now. Is Joker the best

568
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Speaker 1: player in the league? Yes, is Joker the only person.

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Speaker 1: And this is what Nuggets fans should take pride in.

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Speaker 1: Is Joker the only person you could put on that

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Speaker 1: Nuggets team and they would have any chance of winning

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Speaker 1: the championship. Yes, he's the only guy in the league,

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Speaker 1: and they do have a chance. Not a good chance,

574
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Speaker 1: but they do have a chance. The standings are we

575
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Speaker 1: gonna get to the standings later in the show. No,

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Speaker 1: So I'll do it here. Those two losses, however, because

577
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: they lost the last night, now they sat everyone. By

578
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: the way, I should have put this out. Our friends

579
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Speaker 1: at DraftKings might have been annoyed me, but I should

580
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Speaker 1: have put it out. I gave it to Hubbs yesterday

581
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Speaker 1: at one pm. The money line for the Spurs were

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Speaker 1: ten point dogs and they were plus three eighty on

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Speaker 1: the money line, and I said to Hubbs, I was like,

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Speaker 1: this line is acting like Joker is gonna play. I

585
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 1: don't think he is. He's played fifty three minutes the

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Speaker 1: night before, like and Joker then got announced is out.

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00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: The line dropped to damn near a pickham and the

588
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Speaker 1: Spurs won. So shout out to anyone who sniped that,

589
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: because that, to me, I just couldn't be We knew

590
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray wasn't gonna be playing. I couldn't believe it.

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00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: But here's the standings implication. Denver's now the four again.

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00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 1: Some time left, not a lot though, five games left

593
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Speaker 1: Houston sitting at twenty seven losses the Lakers, and at

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Speaker 1: this point in the season, guys just count losses. You

595
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: can make up wins, you can't make up losses, So

596
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: don't talk about games back any of that. Count the losses.

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Speaker 1: That's what matters. Oklahoma City pretty comfortable with twelve losses, unbelievable.

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00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: Houston's at twenty seven and clinched their playoff spot last night.

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00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: The Lakers are at twenty nine, the Nuggets are at thirty,

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Speaker 1: the Warriors are at thirty one, Minnesota is at thirty two,

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Speaker 1: and the two play in teams that are good the

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00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: Clippers and grit well, I don't know if they're good,

603
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: but that are above five hundred. The Clippers and Grizzlies

604
00:41:56,239 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: are at thirty two. So Houston safe from the play

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00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: in barring well, no safe from the plane entirely because

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00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: they clinched their division. That keep you safe from the plane,

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00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it does. But here's what I will

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00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:29,720
Speaker 1: say about Houston. Houston's next five or last final five Demanse, Thunder, Warriors, Clippers, Lakers, Nuggets.

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Speaker 1: So anybody that has some doubts is Houston. Well it's

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Speaker 1: all the teams they could play in Round one of

611
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,760
Speaker 1: the playoffs, except for the Thunder obviously can't play them.

612
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean we're gonna find out over these

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Speaker 1: next five. The Lakers right now would give anything demonse

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Speaker 1: to freeze the standings because well, yeah, Denver Golden State

615
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Speaker 1: play each other in Round one and the winner plays

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. If you froze the standings, the Lakers side

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00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: of the bracket would be Minnesota and then Houston or

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00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 1: I guess maybe the Clippers, like the Lakers would love

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00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: that road. I don't know that they'll get it, but

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Speaker 1: it would absolutely love that road. You too, the Daniel

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Speaker 1: asking if I would you know, like to face the

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Speaker 1: size of the Timberwolves. I again, the West is a

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Speaker 1: monster and there's no you know, no easy outs right

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00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: now except for Memphis. But they're you know, Memphis is

625
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 1: gonna in my opinion, up the eight seed. So you're

626
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Speaker 1: not gonna be able to get Memphis. And yeah, I

627
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Speaker 1: would take my chances. I don't want to face any

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00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: of the I don't want to face Denver or Golden

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Speaker 1: State immediately, and I love the idea of being on

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00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 1: the opposite side of OKC. Like again there. I think

631
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Speaker 1: the Lakers can win the whole thing, but it doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean all paths are created equal. Here's I'll tell you

633
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Speaker 1: who Denver doesn't want to face. Denver be fine with

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Speaker 1: the Warriors. I think they've beaten the Warriors nine straight games.

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Speaker 1: Denver doesn't want to face Minnesota, who has now beating

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Speaker 1: them six games in a row, swept them this season,

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Speaker 1: and then beat them game six and seven of the

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Speaker 1: playoffs last year.

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Speaker 2: Would you give them beef? Doubt they if they were

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Speaker 2: in a series year taking Minnesota.

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00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 1: I take it you have to pick Minnesota, all right?

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00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: Those one six straight, they've won six straight against them.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's talk Lakers Warriors.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so Steph is looking good. He's had a few

645
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 2: games back since his injury. The other day he dropped

646
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 2: fifty two. I had twelve three pointers. So the Warriors

647
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 2: are looking pretty good, which is bad for your Lakers,

648
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 2: who they played at night, and they could also be

649
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 2: potentially playing them in the playoffs. Ye, how do you

650
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 2: feel the Lakers got them? But they're coming off of

651
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:02,280
Speaker 2: a lot of rest.

652
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think the Warriors are everyone's making this

653
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: Warriors eighteen and two with Jimmy eighteen and five since

654
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: the trade about Jimmy, it's about what it's Let Steph

655
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: go back to being Steph. Before the Jimmy trade was

656
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,760
Speaker 1: twenty two a game. Since the Jimmy trade's at twenty

657
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:35,240
Speaker 1: eight a game. On better efficiency popped off for fifty

658
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: two the other night. I if you are getting close

659
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 1: to prime Steph, you're a threat when you have And

660
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 1: it's also a reminder if you have one of the

661
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: greatest players of all time, you have an obligation to

662
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: always be all in. You can't throw seasons away because

663
00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 1: you might go another fifty years in your franchise and

664
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Speaker 1: not have a player nearly as good as Steph Curry. Now,

665
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: I think both teams desperately need this game, which is

666
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,320
Speaker 1: what makes it so fascinating because of what I was

667
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: saying about the standings the Lakers. If the Lakers win

668
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:22,280
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they have twenty nine losses, Golden

669
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: State has thirty two, and by the way, the Lakers

670
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: have the tiebreaker over everyone beneath them in the standings,

671
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: every single team. So you would a win tonight for

672
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 1: the Lakers essentially eliminates any concern of falling into the

673
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: play in And it doesn't lock up a top four seed,

674
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 1: but it essentially does. And if for the Warriors, if

675
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: they lose, they're at thirty two losses. Memphis and the

676
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,919
Speaker 1: Clippers have thirty two losses, they're the seven and the eight.

677
00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: Minnesota's thirty two losses, they're at six. But the flip

678
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:04,720
Speaker 1: side of that applies as well. Golden State wins Demanse,

679
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: the Lakers are at thirty losses, Golden State's at thirty one,

680
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:16,760
Speaker 1: and Golden State could potentially forget hitting in the play

681
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: in end up with home court in Round one. I

682
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 1: the Lakers this year, it's one of the honest things. Ever,

683
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: they are dominant against the Western Conference, So the Lakers

684
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Speaker 1: in the Thunder have almost the same record against the West.

685
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 1: Think about that. So the Thunder are thirty five and

686
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Speaker 1: eleven against the West, which means they are thirty five

687
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:56,479
Speaker 1: and eleven twenty nine and one. No, is that right?

688
00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 3: Yeah?

689
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: Twenty nine and one against the East. The Thunder twenty

690
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: nine and one against the East, thirty five and eleven

691
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: against the West. The Lakers are thirty two and thirteen

692
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: against the West, the second best record of the Thunder

693
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: by a mile in the Western Conference. Thirty two and

694
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: thirteen the Lakers are against the West, which means the

695
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 1: flip side to that is they are fourteen and sixteen

696
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: against the East.

697
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Speaker 3: Role this year. Say it again, they're bad on the

698
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 3: road this year?

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00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:34,280
Speaker 1: Correct?

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Speaker 3: Really?

701
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so the Lakers have been an awesome home team,

702
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: a bad road team. But you're West and East. You

703
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 1: pay you know, you play half your games against the

704
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:52,720
Speaker 1: East at home, half on the road. So the Lakers

705
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: are at home. They need it. They're playing a good team.

706
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 1: I like the Lakers. The tricky thing to the Lakekers

707
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,720
Speaker 1: is for when you look at their final five games,

708
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: you can't do what you can do with most of

709
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:08,840
Speaker 1: the good teams, which is be like, oh, oh, and

710
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: the Lakers don't have five left. Hold on, Lakers have

711
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 1: seven left. That's right, because they have the fire games. Yeah,

712
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: but regardless most teams you'd be like, oh, well, chalk

713
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: up a win against the Pelicans and Blazers. Lakers liable

714
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,879
Speaker 1: to lose to any bad team, but they also are

715
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: excellent against the good teams. Uh so I'm really excited

716
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 1: to see the night it Also, it could be a

717
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:42,479
Speaker 1: playoff preview. If it is, I hope it's not Round one,

718
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:47,439
Speaker 1: not because the Lakers would have, you know, couldn't beat

719
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 1: the Warriors. But I just don't want a guarantee that

720
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 1: one of the two is out of there. And round one.

721
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: There is a team that I am certain is out

722
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: of there and round one. It's the team I saw

723
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Speaker 1: in person on Saturday. Go ahead, demanse.

724
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so they've been struggling over the last few weeks.

725
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:11,280
Speaker 2: They've won two of their last ten games. The Grizzlies.

726
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 3: Nine games left to go.

727
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 2: They fired their head coach, and now they're at risk

728
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 2: of falling into the play and Jahn Morant's holding up

729
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 2: the finger guns. I think they're doing an investigation on

730
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 2: him right now. But yeah, let's talk about the state

731
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 2: of the Grizzlies.

732
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: Okay, so just literally a minute ago, Shams tweeted, let

733
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 1: me read it to you exactly. Uh sorry, hold on,

734
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:46,240
Speaker 1: NBA issued warnings but no further penalties to Grizzlies, Jamorant

735
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 1: and Buddy healed along with the teams for the gestures.

736
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: League ruled the celebrations were not intended to be violent

737
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: in nature, but inappropriate and should refrain. All right. I

738
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:57,279
Speaker 1: want to make this clear. I don't care about the

739
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 1: gun part of this. That's a different discussion. The pantomiming

740
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:09,880
Speaker 1: guns and the it that distracts from the point. Here's

741
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 1: what I care about, demands any type of taunt or

742
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: celebration when there's ten seconds left in a game, your

743
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:20,280
Speaker 1: team needed that. You let the other team's guys score

744
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,839
Speaker 1: fifty and you just lost to continue a four game

745
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 1: losing streak, days after you fired your coach, and you're

746
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: being a goofball. That's what I care about there. I

747
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:37,839
Speaker 1: And like I said, I talked to Tea at the

748
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:42,400
Speaker 1: Grizzlies game. I like Josh Dad. I like him historically,

749
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: I've liked John. John this offseason needs to decide who

750
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 1: do I want to be in this league? Because you've

751
00:51:56,400 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 1: gone from your numbers have gotten worse over each of

752
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 1: the last four years, your health has gotten worse over

753
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: each of the last four years. Your team has gotten

754
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,799
Speaker 1: worse over each of the last four years. You just

755
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 1: fired your coach and you're out here being a goofball,

756
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,880
Speaker 1: like and that was go ahead.

757
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 2: So you're talking about John Ranty in the face of

758
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 2: the league a year ago, correct, like maybe maybe a

759
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 2: little over a year.

760
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, gun stuff, but yes, of course. And and even

761
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: when the stupid gun stuff was happening, nobody questioned his

762
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: skill how good he was? Right, So like that's the nobody.

763
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 1: Nobody was wondering how great he is. He's never got

764
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 1: better as a shooter. In fact, he maybe has gotten

765
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:56,760
Speaker 1: worse from three misses forty of the games with injury.

766
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: Doesn't seem to take winning seriously, the hell's going on?

767
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: Twenty five years old? And the to me, the most

768
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 1: notable piece of the entire incident between he and healed

769
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 1: was the look on Steph Curry's face, because Steph Curry's

770
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 1: face was like a look of honestly, like a disappointed parent,

771
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: like what are you doing? Like like, what what are

772
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 1: you doing? The the reason I'm saying I'm not focused

773
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: on the gun piece.

774
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Speaker 3: Of it is.

775
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,720
Speaker 1: If the if the Grizzlies had just hit free throws

776
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 1: to go up seven with ten seconds left and John

777
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: did that celebration, I would feel totally differently, which means

778
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:57,839
Speaker 1: I know. For me, it's not about the gun piece

779
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 1: of it, and again gun in quotes finger guns like

780
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: it's about being ready to party when your team's falling apart.

781
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 1: It's pro sports man, it's the playoff push. You just

782
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 1: fired your coach. You just it was four straight losses

783
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 1: against the four teams most likely to stand between you

784
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: and a championship. They lost to the Thunder, then they

785
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 1: lost to the Lakers, Then they lost to the Celtics,

786
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: then they lost to the Warriors, and you're being a goofball.

787
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Speaker 3: Like.

788
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 1: I just I don't like it. I don't like it

789
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Speaker 1: this point, with four of the four best teams, including

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Speaker 1: four of the best teams in recent college basketball history,

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00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 1: getting there. Maybe there will finally be a shocking outcome,

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Speaker 1: or maybe we're just going to keep seeing the best

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Speaker 1: Thus far, this has been a tournament where the best

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00:55:56,480 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 1: Duke minus five and a half tonight at even money.

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00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:04,520
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Speaker 1: the rest of these if we can.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers was seen working out with his new teammate

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Speaker 2: DK Metcalf in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: Are you excited to see that Tatum next year? Nah?

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00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 3: I'm kidding.

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00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 2: He hasn't signed yet. What's going on with Aaron Rodgers?

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00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 2: What's going on there? Guy's taking his time.

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00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 1: I don't understand why the Steelers. Here's the deal. I

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00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 1: understood why the Steelers were letting him dictate the terms

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00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 1: when he had a bunch of options. He could go

843
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 1: to New York. Maybe Minnesota was interested. He's out of options.

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00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 1: The Giants signed two quarterbacks, Minnesota's not signing him, Tennessee's

845
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:33,360
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847
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:44,360
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00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 1: He wants to play for you, So why hasn't he signed.

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00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: My guess is he doesn't want to either he doesn't

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Speaker 1: pick on a quarterback, be it Shador if he slips,

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Speaker 1: or Jackson Dart if you love him and he thinks

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Speaker 1: if he hasn't signed yet but has made it clear,

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Speaker 1: oh I'm going to sign that. You guys won't draft

857
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 1: a quarterback because it could upset it. Don't let him

858
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 1: run things. He has nowhere else.

859
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 3: To go, and if they do draft a quarterback. What's

860
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 3: he gonna do.

861
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:30,480
Speaker 1: If he if he hasn't signed yet, then maybe he

862
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 1: just won't sign. Okay, you know what I mean? Like

863
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 1: maybe then he will you know, retire or wait for

864
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 1: to see if there's an injury somewhere or whatever it is.

865
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 1: But you can't let a guy who's never played for

866
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 1: you and hasn't been in good for been good in

867
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 1: four years dictate your draft plans and your offseason plans.

868
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 1: The damn owner of the team came out yesterday and said, yeah,

869
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:58,800
Speaker 1: we thought it'd be done by now. I've never seen

870
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 1: a team that has no history with a player when

871
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: the player is not still awesome jump through these hoops.

872
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 1: It's just baffling to me, all right.

873
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 2: Next, Jerry Jones still hasn't come to closing a deal

874
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 2: on Michael Parson's actually taking a shot at his agent

875
01:00:16,080 --> 01:00:18,880
Speaker 2: during the process. He said, the agent is not a

876
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 2: factor here or is something to worry about. And I

877
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 2: don't know his name, and so my point is, I'm

878
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:26,000
Speaker 2: not trying to demean him in any way. But this

879
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:29,480
Speaker 2: isn't about an agent. Why would Jerry Jones say something

880
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 2: of this sort.

881
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 1: So here's the deal, and I actually think this is

882
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 1: a real story, because there's only two possible truths here. Okay,

883
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 1: one truth is he forgot the agent's name or doesn't

884
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:03,000
Speaker 1: know it, David mulla Getta. If that is the case,

885
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: David's not an obscure agent. He negotiated with Sean Watson deal.

886
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:12,439
Speaker 1: He negotiated Malik Hooker, who's a cowboy, his deal. If

887
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: your general manager does not know the agent's name for

888
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 1: your best player, then it's time to take the car

889
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:25,640
Speaker 1: keys away from him. And people are like, oh, well,

890
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 1: he wasn't He definitely knows his name. Okay, that's fine.

891
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:33,000
Speaker 1: That's door number two. Door number two is he does

892
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:39,760
Speaker 1: know his name, and he's being unnecessarily and intentionally disrespectful

893
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:44,920
Speaker 1: and combative with someone you have to work with. That

894
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 1: ain't good either, you know what I mean. Like, either

895
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 1: he's telling the truth and that's a problem, or he's

896
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: just saying it to piss the guy off and that's dumb.

897
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: Like there's there's no there's no win, there no win whatsoever.

898
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: And it really Jerry Jones, for a long time was

899
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:15,640
Speaker 1: one of the best things that Cowboys had going for them.

900
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:20,480
Speaker 1: He has quickly become their single biggest impediment to winning,

901
01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:24,800
Speaker 1: and for a franchise with that history and a brand

902
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 1: of that caliber, it's just it's just unfathomable that they

903
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: are the worst run team in the league, but right

904
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 1: now they appear to be the worst run team in

905
01:02:36,520 --> 01:02:38,920
Speaker 1: the league.

906
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 3: Let's seem like a gay.

907
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:44,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it doesn't. It's just an Yeah. I

908
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 1: certainly didn't seem like you know that we'd be going

909
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,960
Speaker 1: to the same parties. All right, let's do mock drafts.

910
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:56,120
Speaker 2: Demonse, Uh so, yeah, you're one of the top mof

911
01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:59,120
Speaker 2: mock drafters last year. You haven't said too much about

912
01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:01,640
Speaker 2: it this year. Do you have a mock draft for

913
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:04,360
Speaker 2: the folks out there Monday?

914
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 1: First things, First, mock draft one point zero. I think

915
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:13,640
Speaker 1: I had the world's eighteenth most accurate mock draft last year.

916
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 3: Wow, yeah, I remember eighteen. I didn't know that was the.

917
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:21,480
Speaker 1: Might have been twenty one, it was somewhere. It wasn't

918
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 1: in the top fifteen, but it was in the top

919
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:26,760
Speaker 1: twenty five. I remember that. I'll have to look it up.

920
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:27,640
Speaker 3: Double digits.

921
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. There were I mean there were hundreds

922
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 1: and hundreds done by media member Schrager crushed. Schrager had

923
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:40,919
Speaker 1: the most accurate. Uh so, yeah, Monday on the TV show,

924
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 1: the first mock draft gets revealed.

925
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:46,000
Speaker 2: All right, next, all right, so yeah, Cooper Flags looked

926
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 2: like the real deal throughout the tournament and obviously throughout

927
01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:50,200
Speaker 2: his short college career.

928
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 3: He'll be eighteen when he hits the NBA. Do you

929
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:54,280
Speaker 3: think that he's.

930
01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:55,640
Speaker 2: Gonna be a real deal or he's going to be

931
01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:57,720
Speaker 2: more of a bust or flame out?

932
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:00,400
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously not a bust, but well, no.

933
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:02,320
Speaker 1: You can't say obviously. I mean, the only way you

934
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:03,960
Speaker 1: can be a bus is if you're a super high

935
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:05,840
Speaker 1: draft pick, and the only be a super high draft

936
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:07,960
Speaker 1: picks if people think you're gonna be awesome. But no,

937
01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 1: I think he's good. I am not. So you guys know,

938
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:17,360
Speaker 1: I'm not, you know, watching a ton of college basketball

939
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 1: during the regular season, and so I hadn't It's not

940
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:24,440
Speaker 1: that I hadn't seen Cooper Flag, but I had, you know,

941
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:26,560
Speaker 1: not watched him as closely as the people who are

942
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:32,160
Speaker 1: college basketball diehards. To me, he's been better than advertised.

943
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:37,040
Speaker 1: I thought his game against Arizona was spectacular, and you

944
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 1: guys just hurting the DraftKings read I'm in on Duke

945
01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:43,760
Speaker 1: I mean, he has just been. He's so far and

946
01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 1: away the best player in college basketball. And here's the

947
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 1: crazy thing, Demonse, he doesn't turn nineteen until December, so

948
01:04:54,720 --> 01:04:56,920
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the same age. He's gonna be the

949
01:04:57,000 --> 01:05:00,840
Speaker 1: age Lebron was when he came into the league. Like

950
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 1: he reclassified so he should be a high school senior.

951
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:08,880
Speaker 1: But he's a college freshman. He's tall, he's strong, shoots

952
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:12,560
Speaker 1: it well enough good, IQ can defend. No, no, no, I

953
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 1: now do I think he's gonna be like a super uperstar.

954
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 1: We gotta wait and see that. But he is the

955
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:23,680
Speaker 1: no doubt obvious number one pick. All right, let's go

956
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:25,920
Speaker 1: to the final four. Before we get to the listener questions.

957
01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:29,520
Speaker 2: Uh So Saturday, Florida and Auburn face off before Duke

958
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:31,800
Speaker 2: and Houston face off in the final four.

959
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:33,600
Speaker 3: Do you have any predictions for this?

960
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:38,320
Speaker 1: I'd like Houston to win because I like Kelvin Samson

961
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:41,680
Speaker 1: and you know we used to live there. But the

962
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 1: tournament has been chalk, and I am going to stick

963
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:50,080
Speaker 1: with chalk. Duke over Florida and then Duke wins it all.

964
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:52,760
Speaker 3: What is Duke Kevin? I think I've been hearing it

965
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:53,280
Speaker 3: all week.

966
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:56,960
Speaker 2: I've not asked anybody when you say chalk the context

967
01:05:56,960 --> 01:05:59,880
Speaker 2: clues meaning that it's linear, like what is it?

968
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:00,920
Speaker 3: Like? What does it mean?

969
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:02,760
Speaker 1: Same favorites? Wind?

970
01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:05,400
Speaker 3: Okay, chalk means.

971
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 1: It goes the way. I don't know, so a good

972
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:12,520
Speaker 1: I've always no, that's that you're thinking of?

973
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:12,680
Speaker 3: What?

974
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:16,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got none to do with that. I I

975
01:06:16,200 --> 01:06:22,160
Speaker 1: don't know. Let's find out together. Why Why is a

976
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:28,520
Speaker 1: favorite winning called chalk? Daniel says it's horse racing, but

977
01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:34,760
Speaker 1: I want to know the So here we go from

978
01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:39,640
Speaker 1: vocabulary dot com. The history of chalk dates back to

979
01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:42,840
Speaker 1: the old days of horse racing, when bookmakers would set

980
01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:45,080
Speaker 1: the odds for each horse by riding them on a

981
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:50,400
Speaker 1: chalkboard at on track gambling stations. The odds would change

982
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,880
Speaker 1: during the pre race betting period depending on the amount

983
01:06:52,920 --> 01:06:55,760
Speaker 1: wagered on each horse, so the book makers would often

984
01:06:55,760 --> 01:06:58,640
Speaker 1: need to erase the post odds and chalk up new

985
01:06:58,680 --> 01:07:02,440
Speaker 1: ones uh before beginning of the race. The bookies at

986
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:04,920
Speaker 1: the track had to be skillful with the chalk to

987
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:07,160
Speaker 1: keep their slate boards up to date with las ods.

988
01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:10,440
Speaker 1: In reporting on horse racing around the turn of the

989
01:07:10,480 --> 01:07:14,440
Speaker 1: twentieth century, sports journalists often referred to bookmakers with such

990
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:20,480
Speaker 1: flowery appellations as the lively Nights of the Chalk and blackboard,

991
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:25,240
Speaker 1: or more simply knights of the chalk. Chalk gradually came

992
01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:29,439
Speaker 1: to stand for the bookmakers and their odds making through

993
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:37,440
Speaker 1: the process through the process of matonomy, defined by the

994
01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:41,280
Speaker 1: Visual Thesaurus as substituting the name of an attribute or

995
01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:45,200
Speaker 1: feature for the name of the thing itself. For instance,

996
01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:48,760
Speaker 1: a racing column in the October fifteenth, nineteen oh three

997
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:53,120
Speaker 1: Atlantic Constitution reported the first race. The chalk figures made

998
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:56,520
Speaker 1: it look like five injuries and six favorites for the event.

999
01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,920
Speaker 1: Those who followed the odds put up by the bookmakers

1000
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:03,760
Speaker 1: could thus stay loyal to the chalk and bet on

1001
01:08:03,840 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 1: the favored horses, or they could look for an entrant

1002
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:09,680
Speaker 1: with long odds that could potentially get a bigger payout.

1003
01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:13,200
Speaker 1: A quote from April twenty seven to nineteen oh seven

1004
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:17,559
Speaker 1: Washington Post encapsulates the ambivalence that betters felt toward the

1005
01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:21,840
Speaker 1: chalk of the bookies. Chalk scares many a turf speculator.

1006
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:24,240
Speaker 1: Let him pick a horse to win, and if he

1007
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:26,479
Speaker 1: thinks he ought to be the favorites and the bookies

1008
01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:29,360
Speaker 1: laid a big price against him. Nine times out of ten,

1009
01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:31,360
Speaker 1: the horse won't be played.

1010
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:34,599
Speaker 3: All right, listeners, I made a mistake.

1011
01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:41,280
Speaker 1: No, I'm fascinated by this. Uh and all right, so

1012
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:46,360
Speaker 1: now we know. So that's great, so that I respect

1013
01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:50,200
Speaker 1: that you weren't afraid to ask the question. Um, and

1014
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:55,080
Speaker 1: I've always known what chalk meant. I didn't know it.

1015
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:58,040
Speaker 1: That's where it came from. So chalk just means all

1016
01:08:58,080 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 1: the favorites winning. So when you're filling out a bracket,

1017
01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:04,080
Speaker 1: picking all one seats make the final four as a

1018
01:09:04,200 --> 01:09:07,639
Speaker 1: chalk bracket. It happened though this year, the first time

1019
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 1: it happened since two thousand's fault. Yeah, let's see what

1020
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:15,800
Speaker 1: happens next year on it. All right, Let's do a

1021
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:17,639
Speaker 1: few listener questions before we get out of here.

1022
01:09:18,080 --> 01:09:20,479
Speaker 2: Logan, Nick, why do you still not have an NBA

1023
01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:23,080
Speaker 2: Awards vote? What is the process in order to get

1024
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:25,000
Speaker 2: a vote? And do you think you could get one

1025
01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:26,800
Speaker 2: in the future. You seem like you'd be a pretty

1026
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:27,200
Speaker 2: good voter.

1027
01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:33,880
Speaker 1: I would have thought, so, I don't know, And so

1028
01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:37,160
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1029
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:39,720
Speaker 3: Maybe it's your relationship with Lebron.

1030
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:43,439
Speaker 1: No, I don't I don't know who the It's fine.

1031
01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:48,120
Speaker 1: I really really wanted one a few years ago, and

1032
01:09:49,080 --> 01:09:52,000
Speaker 1: I tried to get one and I didn't. I think

1033
01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:57,640
Speaker 1: Kendrick Perkins got it instead, and I it just is

1034
01:09:57,640 --> 01:10:02,400
Speaker 1: what it is. So Zach Lowe gave his away, or

1035
01:10:02,439 --> 01:10:04,920
Speaker 1: gave his back. Shout out to Zach by the way

1036
01:10:05,400 --> 01:10:08,679
Speaker 1: for being back. Shout out to Simmons, congrats to him

1037
01:10:09,200 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 1: for getting Zach with the ringer. Oh, speaking of awards voters,

1038
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:19,599
Speaker 1: there there's a young woman who covers the Lakers who

1039
01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:26,439
Speaker 1: I've never met, but she she asks Lebron some of

1040
01:10:26,520 --> 01:10:31,759
Speaker 1: the most kind of the question she asked Lebron leads

1041
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:35,000
Speaker 1: to some of his best answers. She asked him a

1042
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:37,160
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, if you guys saw the viral clip

1043
01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:43,280
Speaker 1: of someone asking Lebron about why he's compared basketball to

1044
01:10:43,479 --> 01:10:46,599
Speaker 1: music or jazz, and then he went on a nice

1045
01:10:46,640 --> 01:10:50,960
Speaker 1: little soliloquy about how basketball is like listening to jazz

1046
01:10:51,080 --> 01:10:55,439
Speaker 1: or different music. And then just the other day, she

1047
01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:58,640
Speaker 1: asked him about why it was important for him to

1048
01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:01,759
Speaker 1: bring back mine the game, and he gave a really

1049
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:04,840
Speaker 1: interesting answer. Her name, and I apologize if I'm mispronounced,

1050
01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 1: it is Claire Delone. She just tweeted she got an

1051
01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:12,559
Speaker 1: Awards vote, So that's awesome. Like, those are people that

1052
01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:17,120
Speaker 1: are at games and watching games and really covering teams.

1053
01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:21,360
Speaker 1: I'm totally cool with them having Awards votes. I listen.

1054
01:11:21,439 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 1: I shouldn't act like I'm not cool with other people.

1055
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:31,320
Speaker 1: I since they have expanded the pool to include people

1056
01:11:31,360 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 1: that talk about the sport, commentators and stuff, I would

1057
01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:36,680
Speaker 1: have liked to have gotten one. I don't have one.

1058
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:40,240
Speaker 1: It's fine, Bru's got one and Brew, you know, so

1059
01:11:40,400 --> 01:11:43,760
Speaker 1: first things first is covered. But Brew has one from

1060
01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 1: back his days, you know, as a writer, and he's

1061
01:11:46,439 --> 01:11:49,559
Speaker 1: had one forever. All right, let's do a couple more.

1062
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,759
Speaker 2: Uh, Brandon, do you think we'll look back on Giannis

1063
01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:55,200
Speaker 2: like we do Wilt, as in, how did someone so

1064
01:11:55,320 --> 01:11:56,919
Speaker 2: dominant not win more titles?

1065
01:11:57,439 --> 01:12:00,240
Speaker 1: Well, Joanna's got a long ways to go to we

1066
01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:02,520
Speaker 1: think of him as Wilt, But I do think Giannis,

1067
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:07,960
Speaker 1: you know, Dame's injury in the Buck's future, like Giannis's

1068
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:10,720
Speaker 1: ability to compete for championships despite being one of three

1069
01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 1: best players in the league is very murky in the

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Speaker 1: short term.

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Speaker 2: Next, Uh, Jacob Santa Cruz local here, Nick, what is

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Speaker 2: your favorite food spot in Santa Cruz. Would you would

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Speaker 2: you love to try out a new spot. My suggestion

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Speaker 2: to you is see bright DELI love your brother.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Jacob. I don't know much about Santa Cruz.

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Speaker 1: People have seen me wear the Santa Cruz hoodie. It's

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Speaker 1: because Demands's sister, our older daughter. My older daughter goes

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Speaker 1: to U see Santa Cruz. But I you know, I've

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Speaker 1: just you know, moving her into college, picking her up

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. So I don't know, but I will

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Speaker 1: try seabright Delhi, all right? Last one?

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Speaker 2: Uh bear if nick I was in New York City

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago and I got to and

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Speaker 2: I got to stop by Trentage. Nice to see entrepreneurial

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Speaker 2: ship runs in the family.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out to Trentage. Danielle Store is doing great.

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Speaker 1: Former home of this podcast. All right, great job, everybody.

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Speaker 1: I gotta get to TV again. Reminder we'll do a

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Speaker 1: quick show tomorrow morning recapping Lakers Warriors. So set you know,

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Speaker 1: subscribe like rate review. That really helps. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've looked demon say let me

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Speaker 1: try to pull it up real quick quick. We are

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Speaker 1: approaching two. We're at one hundred and ninety four thousand

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Speaker 1: and change, so almost two hundred thousand subscribers. It'd be

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Speaker 1: sick if we could somehow get to two hundred thousand,

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Speaker 1: you know, early in the NBA playoffs and then maybe

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Speaker 1: pop a big number during a playoff reaction show. Add

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Speaker 1: some subscribers, so subscribe on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: See you guys on TV in a few hours. What's right,